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Bulgaria: To the summit of Musala

We have now been in Borovets for two days. Came from Sofia yesteday by public transport, paid a total of 25 NOK for a 1 1/2 hour bus drive. We are now staying at the Alpin Hotel in Borovets where Kjetil Andre Aamodt has been as well. We have the whole hotel just by our self, quite cool!

Today we walked up to the summit of Mt. Musala, 2925 meters high, Bulgarias highest peak. We had all the weather you could imagine, almost snow, rain, fog, sun. At the end of the day we got to ride with one of the guys working at the ski resort in his car…down the slopes!!! We have some awesome pictures!!!

The weather sucks bigtime, so now we are changing our plans. We will plan this evening when eating dinner where to go. Originaly we planned to go hiking in the mountains for three days, but no! We don’t want to suffer!!!

You might read some stuff about Borovets here http://www.travel-bulgaria.com/content/borovets.shtml and http://www.borovets-bg.com

Bulgaria: First day of vacation

Our first day of the vacation is over. Spent the first night sleeping for 12 hours. Today we have been walking all around the center of Sofia, covering in one the what Lonely Planet recommend for a 4 day stay :-). Sofia is all other than beautiful, not worth spending money traveling to with your girlfriend, but hopefully it will be better when we get to know this city better. Afterwards we will go out to eat and then go to bed early, since we will get up early tomorrow to go hiking.

By the way, the Lonely Planet book is not thrustworthy when it comes to the map of Sofia, it need’s to be updated. And the guy from Slovenia who we share room with, he snorzes!!!

Wan Hu – the first ever astronaut

Or at least, the first guy trying…

…He had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone. He was never seen again…

…like the part “…he was never seen again…” LOL! Read it all here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

Golf is dangerous – duck killing!

Inger Marie, a colleague of mine, was out playing golf here the other day when she missed with one of her strokes. The ball flew out over a nearby small lake where some ducks where swimming, and it hit a small duck right in the head. The small duck started to croak and swim in circles before it passed away…RIP